Thank you for posting such a good email for those of us in the same position. One year ago we got the call as well that our son was on academic probation. He was redshirted at a D-I school his freshman year and did fine acdemically. When it became apparent the fall of his sophomore year that most likey he would not play again, his grades went down the tubes and well as his mental attitude. It is hard to be the star at high school and ride the bench in college. We saw his love of the game disappearing. It was heartbreaking.The D-I School had been the wrong choice but sometimes you can't tell your son what to do. He had to learn the hard way.
We decided with his coach to withdraw him from the D-I and quickly got him enrolled in Community College. The coah there was thrilled to have him.He will graduate this May with his AA and hopefully go on to play at another school.
At the time we were all devasted, but going to the CC has turned out to be a blessing. Also we are now so happy he was reshirted his freshman year and he now has 2 years of eligibilty left.